A new school could relieve overcrowding in Annapolis-area elementary schools, if the company that wants to run it can find a spot in the city.

The Board of Education on Wednesday approved an amended contract for the charter school company, which was set to open a school in the next academic year in Glen Burnie. This would mean The Children’s Guild would operate three schools in the county.

In December, Superintendent George Arlotto announced they were working on a new deal for the company.

The Board of Education unanimously approved the agreement without much fanfare or discussion.

The schools will be contract charter schools, which means the student base is limited to a certain area. The Children’s Guild already operates the Laurel-based Monarch Global Academy, which is limited to children from Maryland City, Brock Bridge or Jessup elementaries.

The school intended for Annapolis would open by 2017, and instead of serving children from grades kindergarten to eighth grade, it would serve children in kindergarten through fifth grade. Enrollment would be a maximum of 805 students. Currently, the largest elementary school is Germantown Elementary, which has a state-rated capacity of 718 students and is just under 90,000 square feet.

The contract school would help relieve overcrowding in schools such as Tyler Heights, where whole grades are housed in portable units behind the school. According to 2014 state-rated capacity numbers, Hillsmere and Germantown elementaries are also overcrowded.

Due to inclement weather all campuses we operate are closed for students; we follow the counties in which are schools reside – Baltimore City, Anne Arundel County and Prince George’s have all announced closings. More information.

The Children’s Guild Baltimore & the Monarch Academy Baltimore City, Glen Burnie and Laurel are now closed. Prince George’s has a two hour delay for students, March 2nd due to inclement weather. Further information on closings & delays by school district.

The Children’s Guild Baltimore Campus as well as the Monarch Academy Baltimore City, Glen Burnie and Laurel Campuses have a two hour delay for students, February 18th due to inclement weather. Further information on closings & delays.

Edith H. Furstenberg, a retired Children’s Guild social worker and family matriarch, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 2 at Roland Park Place. The former Guilford resident was 104.

Born in Baltimore on May 20, 1910, she was the daughter of Sidney Hollander, a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist, and Clara Lauer, a homemaker. She grew up on Talbot Road in Windsor Hills and was a 1928 Park School graduate. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Goucher College and a master’s degree at what is now the Columbia University School of Social Work.

On March 8, 1934, she married Frank Folke Furstenberg, a Swedish-born physician who had moved to Baltimore for a residency at Sinai Hospital. She worked in children’s services, also at Sinai.

In 1942, Dr. Furstenberg, a captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, was assigned to posts in Key West and Valparaiso, Fla., and in San Francisco. She and the family accompanied him.

Mrs. Furstenberg resumed her social work career in 1954 when her youngest children began school and worked for many years at the Children’s Guild and later at Sinai Hospital and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, family members said.

While at Sinai Hospital in the 1960s, she encountered teen pregnancy in girls living in Baltimore’s poor neighborhoods. She sought advice from her son, Dr. Frank Furstenberg Jr., who was then a student at Columbia University. Her questioning led to his undertaking a comprehensive study on teen pregnancy and poverty. The three-decade study, authored by her son, a retired University of Pennsylvania sociologist, confirmed that living in “economically-depressed neighborhoods, not teen motherhood, perpetuates poverty.”